Deep Throat Croaky

John Dean, White House Counsel under Nixon until he was forced to resign amidst the Watergate scandal, writes in the LA Times that the identity of the Watergate whistleblower Deep Throat may soon be revealed.

I have little doubt that one of my former Nixon White House colleagues is history's best-known anonymous source — Deep Throat. But I'll be damned if I can figure out exactly which one.

We'll all know one day very soon, however. Bob Woodward, a reporter on the team that covered the Watergate story, has advised his executive editor at the Washington Post that Throat is ill. And Ben Bradlee, former executive editor of the Post and one of the few people to whom Woodward confided his source's identity, has publicly acknowledged that he has written Throat's obituary.

Who Deep Throat was/is has been a mystery for modern historians for some time. Speculation on the Metafilter thread where I came across this article has included mention of Chief Justice William Rehnquist, while most other theories revolve around these seven candidates.